I’ve been a bad, bad blogger. Today was International Rock Flipping Day, and I have nothing to show for myself. Granted, had I tried to flip any of the tombstones I saw in the Old Burying Ground in Harvard Square this afternoon, I would have probably gotten arrested. But this morning, while walking Reggie along a quiet, shady trail that follows a woodsy right-of-way in suburban Newton, Massachusetts, I couldn’t find any properly flippable rocks. I flipped several small stones, but nobody was home underneath. And all the larger rocks I encountered were either huge, unmoving boulders or mid-size landscaping stones in people’s gardens…and even I with my bad, bad blogging self don’t feel comfortable flipping rocks in someone else’s backyard.
So, you’ll have to satisfy your rock-flipping curiosity by checking out the Flickr photo pool devoted to the occasion or by clicking the links at the bottom of this post (not this one as originally reported). And by way of showing that there isn’t a complete lack of nature out here in the ‘burbs, here’s a blurry glimpse of the red-tailed hawk I spotted while walking Reggie near Waban Square in Newton yesterday. Between this bird and the one I saw in West Newton in July, I’m thinking we should establish an International Birds in Your (Almost) Backyard Day.
Sep 3, 2007 at 9:29 am
Hawks love this town.
Every fall and winter they come to feast at the feeders in my yard. Of course they aren’t there for the seed….
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Sep 3, 2007 at 10:27 am
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Sep 3, 2007 at 11:15 am
Yes, hawks love any place that has an ample supply of food, whether that be feeder-fattened birds or well-fed squirrels.
Once at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, I watched a red-tailed hawk eat a squirrel. The intestines looked like spaghetti: the messiest hawk-meal I’d ever witnessed.
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